Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 74742

Social Security Benefits: Lincolnshire

Tabled: 3 September 2025

Answered: 12 September 2025

Question

Sir John Hayes

Conservative — South Holland and The Deepings

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of benefit claimants have been subject to sanctions in Lincolnshire in the last 12 months.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson

The Department regularly publishes monthly Universal Credit sanction rate statistics for Great Britain as part of the benefit sanction statistics. The latest statistics to May 2025 are available in table 2.1 of the latest benefit sanction statistics table...

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